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Three weeks later. Thanks for the good advice. The amount of insulin I need is going up and up! 30 units and rising. I have got my blood into the low teens, but the insulin seems to be making me put weight on quite suddenly, which is worrying, and throws my back out. The delay in responding was...

I have been a member for ten years, diet controlled with some success. Now I have breast cancer and am undergoing chemotherapy. The doctors seem very confident that it’s early stage and they can fix it. The chemo includes steroids, and my word, they sent my bloods over 30! Following panicky...

Thanks for this discussion. It reassured me .

My mother went to train as a children’s nurse in 1946. She nursed little children dying of things like scarlet fever, polio and whooping cough, on night duty she sat and sewed shrouds for the little ones. By 1950 she understood that nearly all those children could have been saved by...

A lot of people feel like that, including my sister, who is 60, diabetic, obese and asthmatic (just like me ,and younger to boot)and she is a vey senior nurse. On the balance of risks however she will definitely have the vaccination. I too will have it, I have had, and my children have had...

We are retired so do not need to go out. We live in a region that has been lightly affected. I put supermarket deliveries in the garage overnight. I believe 4.5 hours would be enough. I open the post and throw away the envelopes and wrappings. Then wash my hands, and bleach the area. Contents...

Masks are better at preventing a Covid positive person spreading the virus. They don’t work very well at preventing a healthy person catching Covid from an infected person with no mask. If everyone on the train/bus is wearing a mask, no one will catch anything. It’s that simple. Austria’s...

Sounds like anxiety to me. I have seen exactly these symptoms, including hypochondria, in a bereaved person who lost a sibling to cancer very young. It’s a response to trauma. The glandular fever was a trauma because one loses confidence in ones body when something like that happens. I...

My whole extended family had this virus simultaneously in February. That’s seven of us. Two of us diabetic. Can’t guarantee it was Covid because no testing. It was so early in the epidemic we just thought we had a really odd virus. The severity of it ranged from a bit of a cough, and a week of...

Computer hiccup from the sound of it. Maybe it was for next door?

Speak to your line manager.you need a risk assessment, and should be working as far as possible from the Covid 19 wards. If you are dealing with the public you should have PPE . If it’s not available you had better go on furlough. Frankly, you are no use to the NHS taking up an ICU bed

Lots of medical staff are diabetic you know.....

You are right, diabetics have been removed from the vulnerable group on today’s updated webpage. Unlikely to be a mistake. Puzzling

I believe the advice is that diabetics are at risk for the same reasons as people over 70. That is, less effective immune systems, which mean you take longer to recover from illness and therefore may get a more severe case. The kicker seems to be co morbidities. Many old people have health...

By Pickle juice they mean the liquid of naturally fermented vegetables. Not pickled in vinegar. It is pretty good for you in moderation, it carries a wide range of friendly bacteria. Many of us need help with our digestion after a lifetime of high carb western diet! It can be had from...

You are very slim, and some of your problems could be down to undereating. I think you should talk to your parents at Christmas, maybe see the family doctor. Take a written list of your symptoms because they are complicated,and your mind goes blank in the doctors chair. If you ask for a referral...

Personally I do not avoid the sun in Summer, but do not use sun creams - I am fair skinned, but do not burn. From October to March I supplement with D3 in liquid form (10,000 iu's) dropped into my morning kefir - a fermented yoghurt drink I make with whole goats milk, that is high in K2. I...

Hi there, it's called anosmia. The NHS website lists diabetes as one of the causes but does not say why. I developed it after taking Metformin. Digestive disturbances, unpleasant taste, then, bang, loss of sense of smell. I stopped the Metformin but a year later I have only partial recovery of...

Well, the doctors told her she was Type 1. She was admitted to hospital with DKA. I am not going to disagree with anyone because I suspect a lot of doctors are not too clear on what is and isn't Type1 diabetes, and I'm no expert. She initially needed insulin. Her situation may have been...

If anyone is interested I have put an almost unused Hypoband onto eBay with a starting price of £50. It is no use to me as I am Type 2, it belongs to my daughter who developed Type 1 steroid induced diabetes, and then simply recovered over the next six months! They said her pancreas had been...